Category Archives: Relationships
Aurora Atrocity
Comment: This is the start of a new book that I began writing a day before the terrible shooting incident occurred in Aurora, CO. I thought it was timely to post it in light of the situation. As I turn on my TV to catch the morning news, a routine I have …
Repairing Relationships In Recovery
Repairing Relationships In Recovery The previous blog that I posted stressed the importance of relationships in the recovery of addictions. Looking back on it, I discovered that I overlooked a very important aspect of relationships in that blog in regard to addicted populations. Yes, relationships are paramount in the management of recovery and especially …
An Overview of Choice Theory for Addicted Populations
A Broad Overview of Choice Theory for Addicted Populations. The Quality World of the addict or alcoholic contains a very vivid image of their drug of choice. (Alcohol is a drug only in liquid form). So whatever drug they prefer or whatever brand of beer or liquor they prefer will be vividly pictured in …
The Onset of External Control
The Onset of External Control Humans and other mammals are the only animals that are required to learn how to behave in order to survive. Reptiles, fish, and insects are born with the knowledge of what they have to do to survive at the time of their birth and they get right to …
The Toxic Family
The Toxic Parent Unfortunately, there are those family members who, unintentionally, are so toxic to another family member, that divorce from that person seems to be the only remedy. The cause can be found in the parent’s survival skills as developed from a percieved unfriendly world in which they have lived. Alcohol also often …
Money Can’t Buy Happiness . . . Only Pleasure
Money can buy happiness if one needs funding to provide our basic genetic need for survival. Survival needs are: Food, shelter, clothing, transportation, health, and adequate finances to sustain these needs. But Survival is not the only basic and genetic requirement to attain happiness. There are also the needs for Love and Belonging, Power, …
Why People Drink Alcohol
Why do people drink alcohol? For most, it started around the age of 15 or 16 years of age. And this is the result of our laws making it illegal to drink until the age of 21. The teenager wants to know what this magic elixir is that they cannot consume until they reach a …
Your Five Basic and Genetic Needs
In order to possess happiness, you need to have at least one meaningful relationship in your life. Of course, the more you have, the happier you will be. But there is more to happiness than that. In order to maintain happiness, your five basic needs must be met as regularly as possible. Genetics are no …
THE SEVEN DEADLY HABITS
When asked whom people can control, most people would respond, “only me.” Yet these would mostly be people who continually try to control others without realizing they are doing it. When someone is not doing what another person wants them to do, or won’t stop doing something that they don’t want them to do, they …
Conflict Resolution
Each person who has or desires to have a marriage or relationship will have their own photo album of their marriage/relationship pictures before they are even married or enter a relationship. Everyone is walking around with relationship pictures in their Quality World stored in their mind. These images are created out of individual wants and …
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